[Larf] Rap, For All The Jews And White-Boys

[jhaelan]

Two unexpectedly excellent musical interludes, masquerading as rap (though the latter has strong overtones of reggae):

• White And Nerdy from Weird Al Yankovich
• Youth from Matisyahu Matisyahu

Readers will no doubt be familiar with Weird Al, but perhaps less so with Matisyahu, the world's only rapping Hasidic Jew

Comments

[moral_vacuum]

the world's only rapping Hasidic Jew

If only he did rave music.

"We call it hass-iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid...."

[jhaelan]

Sir, I believe you have now used up your pun quota for the year ;)

[moral_vacuum]

Ooh, did I actually cause physical pain? Hurrah!

[jhaelan]

No, but you've set my counselling back months!

[_ladylazarus_]

i don't like this type of music, but i saw matisyahu perform this summer (it's a new york thing) and i have to say he's a really amazing performer. i suppose i've fallen into the trap of "wow, it's a rapping hasidic jew...i know by their rules they prob think this is nuts and/or unnacceptable" but i was pretty captured by it.

supposedly he was just an nyu kid that converted later in life. which adds to the 'gimmick' effect.

what worries me at all is the fact that the video you linked to looks like it was filmed in cbgb's...which even if it was is kind of impossible (space, lighting, etc) ...so that's the most fake of all...

[jhaelan]

Ditto on this not being my usual musical fare, but I'm tempted to buy the album nonetheless; his online videos struck me as pretty powerful and show what can be done in the genre... It certainly makes a change from bling and braces

[mart_80]

Have you seen the White & Nerdy video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw :)

[jhaelan]

Aye, it's glorious

[emeraldgrrl]

If you ever wanted to catalogue the nerdy things in that video, don't bother. It's already been done here and here, so check it out.

Visual nerd-references not directly mentioned in Weird Al's "White & Nerdy" lyrics1. cordless electric lawnmower

[jhaelan]

Geek ;)

[tallarn]

Myself and littleangel_103 saw Matisyahu at the free Hyde Park gig last year and he was excellent!

[jhaelan]

Cool, I shall definitely grab the album then

[tallarn]

He has an amazing voice. Although the music was not exactly to our taste, we couldn't deny the fact that he's bloody talented.